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of the side boxes may be closed or opened at pleasure ; and a 
very graphic description is given of the formation of such a bee- 
house, together with proper management, under all circumstances, 
showing the advantages to be gained by the method proposed; it 
is also illustrated with an engraving. The boxes are there shown 
separated one from another, the better to explain their form and 
positions; but when in use they stand closely together, and may 
be covered or not with an ornamental structure, according with 
the taste of the proprietor, in the manner of that shown at the end 
of this paper. 
Under the head of Summer Management , we have the following 
important, but too frequently neglected advice:—“We must 
now suppose the colony is fairly at work, and in fine weather. 
Should the reverse be the case, and bad days succeed each other 
immediately after swarming, and before any provision is accumu¬ 
lated, recourse must be had to feeding, or starvation might be 
feared. Under any circumstances, many apiarians advise giving 
honey, or a syrup of sugar and water, to a newly-hived stock of 
bees, and this is a matter deserving more attention than it has 
received. It is well known that, on leaving the parent hive, the 
bees carry with them a good deal of honey. There is little doubt 
but that the main object of this provident proceeding is to enable 
them at once to commence the work of comb-building in the 
new dwelling, and this they do almost as soon as hived. The 
material of which the combs are so curiously formed is wax, 
secreted by the bees themselves, and not any substance conveyed 
into the hive, as is generally but erroneously supposed. To 
enable them to form this secretion, the bees must have access to 
some saccharine matter (a syrup of sugar and water has been 
found to answer the purpose as well as honey) ; and this is the 
first thing sought by the new colony; so that an early supply of 
it greatly facilitates proceedings.” 
After describing the wax, propolis, honey, pollen, or brood- 
bread, the summer management is continued; and on Ventilation 
the author says, now give more room and increased ventilation, 
in hot weather, to collateral hives, by placing the bell-glasses 
over the holes on the top of the pavilion (the centre box of the 
three before described). It is well, previously, to tie a piece of 
crape over the opening at the top of the glasses, to prevent egress 
in that quarter. 
